Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

I don't have time to think about my pre-politics days. I am so very busy.

My work is just a hobby. No, I wouldn't want to do it professionally. It's too hard. Deadlines are no fun. But I can sit and tweak all night and not worry about time.

Way, way, way back I played a little bit, but I am definitely not a golfer. You know, it just takes too much time anyway during the course of the day.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.

Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?'. And it is what I have done.

My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from four feet. I'm playing only about once or twice a month. Full-time job. Full-time father. Full-time blonde.

Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.

My manager always preaches golf comes first.

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

Lyndon, please tell me as soon as you can what the deal is … I am afraid its politics. I would hate for you to go into politics.

In the last five years I used to go to Zen practice once a month, but since I assumed the post of prime minister it's been much harder.

Training for the Olympics was much easier than balancing my life now! When practice was over, there was time for me. But with four kids and a career, I have no downtime. When I'm not on the road, I finish my workday at 2:30 p.m. Then I pick the kids up from school and they get 100 percent Mommy, not part Mommy and part Mary Lou Retton.

I'm very active. I've got two small daughters and four restaurants in three cities. I'm busy.

There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.

I used to think hard work made me come alive, honestly. I used to have a daily work schedule with millions of things on it and I thought, "This is wonderful!"

I will never be as busy as I was in high school and college.

Find as many opportunities as you can and clock as many hours as you can.

A person has to be busy to be alive.

They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.

Life seems to be busy for most people and if you know you are doing the best you can then there really is nothing more you can do then that.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

The only reason I don't do more is because, like all of us, we have busy lives.

I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working.